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Sewage-dump locale angers residents
New York company to use
W. Texas land for waste site
BEL PASO (AP) — Ranchers and
environmentalists are blasting a
New York company's proposal to
dump 324,000 tons of treated
sewage sludge on West Texas
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run-off elecSr:;i anch land each y ear
n vote in themw Documents released by Merco
irst election J°' n t Venture show the company
run-off electic-i® interestecl in bu y in 8 a 108,000-
acre tract of the Mile High Ranch
near Sierra Blanca, 90 miles east of
El Paso.
;lopment(RHAlB h' 8 anotber indicator of the
border becoming a national
dumping ground," said Linda
Lynch, leader of Alert Citizens for
Environmental Safety, a Hudspeth
County group fighting a planned
low-level radioactive waste dump
near Sierra Blanca.
"I don't hear about this kind of
thing going on along the Canadi
an border."
But a company representative
5son
amp
said the project would be moni
tored by Texas Tech University
scientists and is expected to in
crease land productivity.
"It'll involve about 10 railroad
cars of sludge a week," said Susan
Potts, the Texas spokeswoman for
Merco Joint Venture. "We want to
work closely with the community
on this; we want to make this a
good project."
Environmental Protection
Agency officials in Dallas con
firmed Friday that company offi
cials have asked about permits for
the project.
"It's a relatively new technolo
gy, and that unknown element
causes public fear," said Roger
Meacham, an EPA spokesman.
"But we support it, if it's done
properly."
The semi-liquid municipal
waste would be treated to remove
pathogens, chemicals and most
heavy metals before being trans
ported from New York.
At the ranch, the sludge would
be spread over the ground.
"This has been going on for
years on farms in the Midwest,
but never on rangelands before —
that's what's exciting," said Ron
Sosebee, a Texas Tech range and
wildlife management expert who
would oversee a $1.5 million re
search grant funded by Merco
Joint Venture.
"This will be 'clean sludge,'"
Sosebee said. "It'll be comparable
in quality to store-bought organic
manure."
He said some heavy metals,
mainly copper and cadmium,
would be present in small
amounts.
Sierra Blanca rancher Sam
Dodge said he and others do not
like the idea.
"I've been ranching here since
1966 and turned a profit every
year without the help of any hu
man waste," said Dodge, whose
property borders the Mile High
Ranch. "If this stuff is so good,
they can keep it in New York."
Dodge said fecal matter in the
sludge could infect his cattle's
eyes. He also said groundwater
could become contaminated.
tommittee celebrates successful fund-raiser
Continued from Page 1
rs/' Newbury said.
Representatives from the Big Event Com-
liittee went around to the sites to make sure
o 5 j (Lwerything was running smoothly and to see if
(> rling C Ev was needed, Newbury said.
ter, andfroinM radio, another sponsor of the Big
Event, was on hand and broadcasted live from
several of the work sites.
"KKYS went around to different sites and
talked to people throughout the day, and they
helped out at the 'after Big Event party' at Fud-
druckers," Newbury said.
Russell said the party at Fuddruckers pro
vided the opportunity for everyone to come to
gether at the end of a successful day.
"It was kind of nice to sit back and relax and
to talk about the day with everyone," she said.
"The committee members said the groups
were having a really good time."
The Big Event Committee began planning
for this project last September.
"The committee really did a great job,"
Newbury said.' "I think we were a different
committee after Saturday was over. It was
neat to see everything come together and all of
our hard work pay off."
Russell said that, overall, the Big Event was
a "big" success.
"Everything went really well," she said.
"Considering the magnitude of the project, it
was really smooth. Many people said that this
was the best Big Event they had ever seen."
Elections ignite Iranian attack, spokesman says
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health and si?
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nied attacking the Iranian villages.
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attack was the tremendous politi
cal crisis facing the Tehran regime
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the Iranian base and that Iraqi
troops shot down one warplane
and captured the two crewmen.
The rebels said 12 F-4s attacked
in five waves and claimed they
shot down the jet.
The official Iraqi News Agency
said President Saddam Hussein
met with his military commanders
after the attack. It did not give de
tails of the discussions.
Baghdad Radio said Iraq's For
eign Ministry sent a letter of
protest to U.N. Secretary General
Boutros Boutros-Ghali. His prede
cessor, Javier Perez de Cuellar, an
gered the Iraqis last year by blam
ing Iraq for the Iran-Iraq war.
Mujahedeen Khalq issued a
statement in France saying its
leader, Massoud Radjavi, sent a
telegram to Boutros-Ghali asking
that the U.N. Security Council
condemn the attack and embargo
oil and arms trade with Iran.
In Europe, dozens of Muja
hedeen supporters hurled fire
bombs, bricks and rocks at Iranian
diplomatic offices in Germany,
Sweden, Britain, France, the
Netherlands and Switzerland.
Two buildings at the embassy in
Sweden were badly burned and a
consulate in Hamburg, Germany,
also suffered fire damage.
The Iranians are believed to
have about 20 American-made F-
4s in working condition. The rest
have been grounded because of a
lack of spare parts, which the
United States cut off after Iran's Is
lamic revolution in 1979.
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